Aussie lifesavers pass on skills to Indian counterparts

Surf life savers in their yellow and red outfits are synonymous with Australian beaches.

But you'd be hard pressed to find one patrolling the coasts of India, despite tens of thousands of drowning deaths in the country each year.

The Coogee Surf Life Saving Club in Sydney's east hopes to change this, by helping bring two Indian lifesavers to Australia to be trained to our standards.

"I was in India in 2015 doing some surf lifesaving training and saw a great need to increase the skill base of the life savers in India," Coogee Surf Life Saving trainer, Doug Hawkins, told 9NEWS.

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"We've been able to get two of those life savers here for this particular two weeks and we're going to be training them in their bronze and a whole bunch of different surf lifesaving awards so they can go back to India and train hundreds and maybe thousands of other people."

Niroop Gr and Srikrishna V travelled more than 9000 kilometres from Mangalore, India to take part in the Coogee club's bronze medallion training.

The program includes resuscitation techniques, basic first aid and a range of rescue procedures.